"Everytime We Touch" is the debut single by German dance

Dance music

Dance music is music composed specifically to facilitate or accompany dancing. It can be either a whole musical piece or part of a larger musical arrangement...

 act Cascada

Cascada

Cascada is a German Eurodance act most famous for their hit singles "Everytime We Touch", "What Hurts the Most", and "Evacuate the Dancefloor"...

, which borrows the chorus from Maggie Reilly

Maggie Reilly

Maggie Reilly is a Scottish singer best known for her collaborations with the composer and instrumentalist Mike Oldfield...

's song of the same name

Everytime We Touch (Maggie Reilly song)

"Everytime We Touch" is a song recorded by Maggie Reilly for her 1992 album Echoes. The song was produced by Armand Volker and recorded under the label of Mambo Musik...

. The song was produced by Manuel Reuter

DJ Manian

DJ Manian is a German producer, DJ, owner of Zooland Records label and a member of the award-winning music dance trio Cascada, alongside fellow DJ Yanou and Natalie Horler...

 and Yann Pfeiffer

Yann Pfeiffer

Yanou is a German trance musician and producer. He is most famous for collaborating on DJ Sammy's hit "Heaven" with vocalist Do and for being a member of the popular German trance act Cascada alongside DJ Manian and Natalie Horler...

. It was a worldwide dance-hit in early 2006. It peaked at number 10 on the US Billboard

Billboard (magazine)

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 Hot 100

Billboard Hot 100

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, and was certified triple platinum

RIAA certification

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 by the RIAA

Recording Industry Association of America

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.

Composition

"Everytime We Touch" is an eurodance

Eurodance

Eurodance is a genre of electronic dance music that originated in the late 1980s or early 1990s primarily in Europe. It combines many elements from House, Techno, Hi-NRG and especially Italo-Disco...

 song composed in F minor

F minor

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. It has a tempo

Tempo

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 of 142 beats per minute.

Formats and track listings

These are the formats and track listings of major single releases of "Everytime We Touch".

• U.S. Maxi single

1. Everytime We Touch — 3:19
2. Everytime We Touch (Rocco vs. Bass-T Remix Radio Edit) — 3:06
3. Everytime We Touch (Dan Winter Radio Edit) — 3:38
4. Everytime We Touch (Verano Radio Edit) — 3:23
5. Everytime We Touch (Original Mix) — 5:34
6. Everytime We Touch (Rocco vs. Bass-T Remix) — 5:42
7. Everytime We Touch (Dan Winter Remix) — 6:37
8. Everytime We Touch (Scarf! Remix) — 5:34
9. Everytime We Touch (Verano Remix) — 5:50

Chart performance

In March 2006, the song peaked at number 10 on the US Billboard

Billboard (magazine)

Billboard is a weekly American magazine devoted to the music industry, and is one of the oldest trade magazines in the world. It maintains several internationally recognized music charts that track the most popular songs and albums in various categories on a weekly basis...

 Hot 100

Billboard Hot 100

The Billboard Hot 100 is the United States music industry standard singles popularity chart issued weekly by Billboard magazine. Chart rankings are based on radio play and sales; the tracking-week for sales begins on Monday and ends on Sunday, while the radio play tracking-week runs from Wednesday...

. In the UK, the song peaked at number 2, being held off from number 1 by Shakira

Shakira

Shakira Isabel Mebarak Ripoll , known professionally as Shakira , is a Colombian singer who emerged in the music scene of Colombia and Latin America in the early 1990s...

's "Hips Don't Lie

Hips Don't Lie

"Hips Don't Lie" is a Latin pop song based in a salsa and cumbia performed by Colombian singer Shakira and Haitian rapper Wyclef Jean, released in 2006 as the second single from Shakira's second English album Oral Fixation Vol. 2...

".

Charts

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Chart (2005–06)	Peak position

Certifications

Year-end charts

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|German Singles Chart

Media Control Charts

The official music charts in Germany are gathered and published by the company Media Control GfK International on behalf of Bundesverband Musikindustrie...

 
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Release history

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!scope="col"|Country
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!scope="row"|United States
|August 16, 2005
|Maxi single

Maxi single

A maxi single or maxi-single is a music single release with more than the usual two tracks of an a-side song and a b-side song.-The first maxi singles:...

|Robbins Entertainment

Robbins Entertainment

Robbins Entertainment is an American dance music record label. It is owned by Cory Robbins and is responsible for releasing and promoting several new artists, such as Cascada, and their hit single "Everytime We Touch". It is also the company responsible for the Dance Party Like It's.... series and...

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External links

• CascadaMusic.de — official website.